Dizzy Gillespie Quotes

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.

I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

I feel like I have a group of friends, guys could be interchanged with my neighbors from back home. These guys are really close and really tight, and it all stems from 'Wouldn't it be cool if this happened.'

The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

This [Twilight] cast rocks! We get along so well together it's like a real family which is great to see.

There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.” Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they’d been through. Maybe because of it. “I’ll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.